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Somewhat improved, but especially in the notebook space it's still far from optimal. This is not necessarily fault of the commnunity - laptops often have custom hardware (e.g. NVIDIA Optimus) that simply doesn't have driver support because vendor doesn't care.

That would suggest US medical research companies are not properly compensated by their European customers. I don't think that's the case :)

I'm pretty sure that a Swiss or UK physician does equally good job as his counterpart in the US.

I have a setup like that, I get more spam because of that of course but Google is really good at filtering it. And especially in conjunction with priority inbox, it's a breeze (and very convenient).

1. Chargebacks are only necessary because of the pull nature of the US banking system. I haven't even heard about chargeback until I came to US from Europe. Bitcoin is push, no chargebacks are necessary because nobody can take your money.

2. For smaller sums of money (e.g. coffee) you can pretty much assume the transaction to be confirmed once you see it on the network. To be really, really sure the transaction is confirmed and money is yours, you have to wait about an hour.

3. Indeed, Bitcoin fluctuates, you need to peg it to your expenses which is usually your local currency. That doesn't mean you must convert it to that currency. You can incorporate this into your payment button. But yes, this is a downside.

So basically you think that if the French populace had a lot of guns it would help them fight off Wehrmacht? It might help the resistance a little bit but otherwise it's useless. And even more so against modern armies.

And don't forget Japanese - in the sixties and seventies, they were copying technologies exactly like Chinese do today and everyone was afraid they're going to overrun the whole world.

I kind of hoped for an actual torrent tracker rather than central site that can be easily taken down. But never mind :)

Great writeup, but I have a comment on deploy: do you mean that "play start" can be used for production? Because otherwise, Django has runserver for development. It just shouldn't be used for production.

I'm curious, are other Java implementations (e.g. OpenJDK) really that bad? I mean, quite a lot of influential/resourceful companies are behind it, are they unwilling or unable to improve it?

Nice. BTW, there is a similar site: http://hnhiring.me/

I'd be very interested to hear a ballpark estimate how much data they're storing in their PostgreSQL instances. Any word on that?

But that would increase prices for programming work to the point where some projects simply would not make financial sense. So there would less projects and therefore less non-programming jobs associated with those projects.

I'm a foreign graduate student doing my Master's degree at a relatively well-known university in Texas and I really don't feel like a slave. The pay is modest (15K/year for 20h/week) but it is sufficient to live comfortably and occasionally travel (I travelled 6 weeks last summer all over US). And I don't feel like any of my fellow students are slaves either. No crazy hours, no crazy pressure on results.

Maybe it's worse for PhDs or at better (research) universities?

It's somewhat sad given the circumstances, but this reads as one of those Chuck Norris lists.

Nice to see this, used to do this with just Inkscape -- somewhat more work :).

Well, I think we all agree that this isn't what RMS imagined (by a LONG shot). This is a kind of compromise, a merging of Free Software ideals with practical implementation how to translate Linux into a "consumer OS".

The sad fact is that you simply cannot handle root shell to an average consumer. The only result of that is a security hole because the user is grossly uneducated (the question whether he should be educated is for another time).

Regarding the bootloader lock/root, you have to commend Google for offering great, and easy to unlock & root phones off the shelf. The fact that US cellular market is screwed with subsidies and carriers making it hard to root phones is a whole different issue - that's really not Google's fault. It's also definitely not the case elsewhere (e.g. in Europe, where my experience comes from).

And I also think this is a much better state than if all those phones run Windows ;)

Actually, yes in my viewpoint pretty much every billboard is spam. I've yet to see a billboard that informed me of something useful to me personally. (Let alone at an appropriate time! Is me driving on a highway an appropriate time to let me know that I should buy something? Hell no.)

Well, they would first impose it and then somebody sues them and it starts bouncing around various courts for the next 5 years. It would take some serious time until there would be a final ruling.

Well, that's for now. How is it going to be in 3 years? Is this just a grace period? Obviously it affects new signups first, they can't just cut off everybody and force to migrate to the paid version.

In my experience (coming from former communist country, now living in US) it's a bit amplified by the fact that these competitions are significantly more popular in those countries than they are for example in US or Western Europe. It just means more in practical terms like getting a good job. I happen to work for the ACM ICPC and if you look at participation (number of contestants) from Western Europe it's much less than countries like China, India or Russia. From what I heard, scoring in such a competition in these countries is really prestigious. Not that it doesn't matter in US or Western Europe, but it's not that important.

You actually don't need separate emails for this. You can use (name+tag@provider.com, Gmail supports it and others too I'm sure). Or you can use your own domain (Google Apps makes this really trivial) and have the part before @ be the sitename (that's what OP suggests) and then have catch-all address. You might receive slightly more spam if you turn on catch-all, but I have a setup like this a it works.

Well, I'm not a big fan of Skype but I tend to use it for longer calls with family overseas (US<->Europe) because I experience quite significantly better video/audio quality. Few months back (it's fixed now I think) I even had freezing video every so often on Google Hangout.

Or screen sharing, it was completely unusable in Google Hangouts on Linux just 2 months back whereas Skype didn't have any issue and worked (surprisingly!) flawlessly.

I don't really perceive the network effect that much, everybody I have on Skype also has a Google account.

Agreed. It's a triviality but git add -p is one of the main reasons my commits in Git are cleaner than in SVN. It's also one of the advantages I cite when advocating for Git.

Well, let's be honest with ourselves. If they won't be free from the original source, they will eventually be free from other sources. The important thing is that the material will exist and it will be available for anyone to learn from.

That said, I really doubt that these classes will remain free. (Especially with likes of Hardvard and MIT.)

Guys, just out of curiosity, what school are you studying? I'm Petr, I did my Bachelor degree at CTU FEE (CVUT FEL) and I'm doing my Master's in US.